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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Thomas A. Easop wrote: > I have seen OMS and FABER tanks side by side and the FABERs were much > heavier, and different bouyancy, not nuetral or near nuetral when > empty. Your experience is completely orthogonal to mine. > I read in a post, I think from JJ, that the WKPP looked at lightweight > steels for the rebreather, and mentioned OMS. I do not have time to > dig out the post, but I thought it said they chose those. So if they > are all the same but SCUBAPRO is cheaper, I do not know why they may > have chose the OMS. Could it be they found a worthwhile difference? Probably more like OMS were the only choice available in the size they wanted. For example, I don't think PST makes an LP120, Scubapro doesn't distribute the Faber LP120, and Faber doesn't sell them in the US except through OMS distribution. So, if you want a neutral-when-empty LP120, your choice of distributor is made. Likewise for the LP45 and LP85, made by Faber but only distributed in the US by OMS. BTW, Scubapro did sell a _very_ heavy 72 and 95, but they are rated at 3000psi, not 2400psi (are these beasts still being sold?). I think most folks don't refer to them as LP. I do not know if those cylinders are made by Faber. The 2400psi Scubapro 95 is in fact a Faber cylinder. -- Art Greenberg artg@ec*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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